Join Jude and Stef and our special guest Knewbettadobetta for our first-ever live show, “Athrabeth Podcast Live: The Unsung Underachievers of Tolkien’s Legendarium” from Westmoot 2025! We put three of Arda’s wettest noodle’s on blast! 

Thank you Westmoot for having us, and thank you Knewbetta for joining us!

Citations: 

Thank you to our special guest, Knewbettadobetta! 

Knewbetta’s Linktree

https://linktr.ee/Knewbettadobetta

Knewbetta’s plugs:

Voices of Arda- linktr.ee/voicesofarda  

Kali- linktr.ee/KaliCosplay

Belmont- linktr.ee/be1mont   

Kaia- linktr.ee/kaiakay  

Andie- “Tolkien with Friends” podcast, linktr.ee/tolkienwithfriends   

David the Ñoldo- linktr.ee/davidthengoldo  

TJ Nee- “Tolkien on Tap” podcast, linktr.ee/the_neej  

Thank you to Westmoot and the Tolkien Society for having us! 

http://westmoot.org/

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/  

General citations for all three presentations:

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition.  (Accessed 5/8/2025)

Tolkien, J. R. R. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition. (Accessed 5/8/2025)

Stef’s Aladarion citations:

Brown, Sara. "The Tale of 'Aldarion and Erendis': Not Just a Medieval Love Story," Journal of Tolkien Research Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 6. (2023) https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol18/iss1/6 (Accessed 4/30/2025). 

Hoiem, Elizabeth Massa. "World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in "Aldarion and Erendis". Tolkien Studies 2 (2005): 75-92. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tks.2005.0020. (Accessed 5/5/2025). 

This is the amazing article that Stef mentioned at the start of her presentation that puts Aladarion in a new light: 

Queripel, Rory M. "The Mariner (and his wife): Queering Aldarion's (A)sexuality." 

Journal of Tolkien Research

 Vol. 18: Iss. 2, Article 12 (2023). 

https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol18/iss2/12

 (Accessed 5/5/2025).